Things to share from my business journey

In the course of growing your business, have you developed a great training program that could help train employees at other companies? Do you have a special skill or unique talent that you would like to share with others? If either of these statements is true, then you might benefit by creating and sharing your training courses online.

In the past, there were significant hurdles to developing and sharing a course online. Now, there are several sites available that make it easy to create your own training course. Many of these sites do charge a small fee for hosting your course, but these same sites also often offer a convenient way for others to learn about your classes as well as enroll in a specific course and pay for your knowledge.

Consider posting your next training online at one of the following sites to gain exposure that can increase your company’s reputation while providing another potential revenue stream for your business.

Digital Chalk is used by the prestigious Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a host of other well respected businesses and institutions to offer top quality training courses. The company offers a wide variety of plans that help users create their own online course that is then easily shared with others. The company’s platform does most of the work for you and allows users to easily customise their clients’ eLearning experience. The set-up fee is just $399, and then pre-registration per course is just $4.95

SkyPrep provides users several easy to use tools to take their ideas and skillset turn them into an online course. Users can then license their courses to use as they like, or offer them for sale through SkyPrep’s own marketplace. If you elect to sell them through the marketplace, it’s just $9 per month per course, plus 10% commission on sales of your course. Kikkoman, the NFL’s Buffalo Bills, and the State of Colorado are just a few of the many groups and brands that successfully use the site to share their courses online.

Udemy makes it easy for users to assemble all of their various teaching aids, such as videos, slides, PowerPoint presentations, YouTube clips and more and turn them into an organised, cohesive eLearning experience. The great thing about Udemy is that it’s completely free for the instructor and creator of the course, with the company simply taking 30% of the profit from sales of the course.

Of course, there are several additional sites that make it easy to create, share and sell your own training courses. You can learn about twelve additional venues for creating and selling your own training content by reading this article at The Learning Revolution’s Blog.